CZ:Biology Workgroup/Biology Week planning/Shorter Press Release draft

Note: I'm not a Biology Workgroup person, but this Workgroup Week needs a press release. I'm starting this in the hope that we can write one quickly. --Tom Morris 16:02, 14 September 2008 (CDT)

Title

Online biology articles written by anybody

Contact

Larry Sanger (--add Larry's contact details)

Body

From September the 22nd-28th, 2008, scientists, college professors and interested amateurs are joining together to collaborate on writing articles on a wide range of biological topics for the Citizendium, an online encyclopedia project founded in 2006 by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger.

During the Biology Week, biologists and anyone interested in the topic are invited to share their knowledge to help build a reference resource which applies a gentle expert guidance to articles written collaboratively by the Citizendium community.

The Citizendium was founded in 2006 by Larry Sanger to create a more trustworthy free encyclopedia, with a more responsible and accountable governance model, and more cordial and collegial collaboration with gentle guidance from subject experts. It was made in order to overcome some of the problems that Sanger felt have developed in Wikipedia and hinder it's development. Dr Gareth Leng, Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, and Citizendium author and editor described the project: "our role will not be to tell readers what opinions they should hold, but to give them the means to decide, rationally, for themselves. The role of experts is critical - not to impose opinions, but to support accuracy in reporting and citing information".